John Lennon will be played by two wildly different actors in two very different projects. We recently saw the first clips from Christopher Eccleston as the post-Beatles Lennon in Lennon Naked, which will air on BBC Four later this year — enjoy this clip via Blogtor Who:

Considering that Sam Shepard was terrific as Chuck Yeager, I’d go for him playing Peckinpah!

Der Bruno Stroszek

If Tobey Maguire can pull off a British accent, he’d be a dream Alan Turing.

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Right, we need a script of the struggle and angst of making of both Junior Bonner (a Peckinpah movie with no violence at all, except rodeo riding, that good old Sam had very high hopes for and then NO ONE went to see) and The Getaway (pretty damn bloody and made out pretty good at the box office).